- Really & Truly
"Really & Truly" was a "2000 AD" comic strip, created by
Grant Morrison andRian Hughes . It ran in 1993 as part of the "Summer Offensive" and dealt explicitly with drugs.Characters
*Really, one of the main characters
*Truly, the other lead
*Johnny Zhivago, a cosmonaut
*Scuba Trooper, a beat poet
*Captain Nice, a government drugs agent who travelled in the House of Fun
*Boss Buddah, a gangsterPlot
Really and Truly have to make a
Hanna-Barbera Josie & the Pussycats viaOn the Road style cross country run. However, they have a well-defined "mission" (to deliver a consignment of drugs), big guns, much stranger passengers (Zhivago and Scuba Trooper) and far more determined, and unusual, pursuers (Nice and Buddah).Publication
In its original run the strip appeared in eight installments in "2000 AD" #842-849, (1993), and was recently reprinted in "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Rian Hughes' Collected Comics" (
Knockabout Comics , 256 pages, 2007, ISBN 0861661540)Trivia
*Grant Morrison wrote it in one night after taking Ecstasy [http://www.2000ad.org/thrillpower/2kad6.html]
*The House of Fun is a colloquial term for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Morrison reused the name later - it was the title of Volume 1 issue #22 of "
The Invisibles ". [http://www.barbelith.com/bomb/1_22.htm]ee also
There were influential things in the air at the time:
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Riot Grrrl , influential early "Girl Power " movement that hit its peak in the early nineties.*, the UK rave scene also went overground and hit its peak in the early nineties (before being made illegal in 1992).
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Tank Girl ", another earlier (and later) comic featuring a strong female lead and her oddball adventures.External links
* [http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=thrill&page=profiles&choice=really 2000 AD profile]
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